Yagouba Surname
Approximately 205 people bear this surname
Yagouba Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 187 | 1:111,065 | 12,922 |
| Ivory Coast | 9 | 1:2,563,470 | 41,100 |
| Niger | 7 | 1:2,741,717 | 49,802 |
| Burkina Faso | 1 | 1:18,352,100 | 30,051 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
Yagouba (2,819) may also be a first name.
Yagouba Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Yagouba Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Yagouba (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻳﻌﻘﻮﺏ) is more commonly found in Cameroon than any other country or territory. It can also occur as a variant:. Click here for further possible spellings of this surname.
How Common Is The Last Name Yagouba? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 1,163,787th most frequently used family name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 35,549,004 people. The last name Yagouba is predominantly found in Africa, where 100 percent of Yagouba reside; 73 percent reside in West Africa and 62 percent reside in Senegambia Africa. It is also the 137,278th most numerous first name world-wide, borne by 2,819 people.
Yagouba is most widely held in Cameroon, where it is carried by 187 people, or 1 in 111,065. In Cameroon it is mostly concentrated in: Adamawa Region, where 86 percent reside, West Region, where 7 percent reside and Far North Region, where 3 percent reside. Apart from Cameroon Yagouba is found in 4 countries. It is also common in The Ivory Coast, where 4 percent reside and Niger, where 3 percent reside.
Phonetically Similar Names
Yagouba Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Yagouba in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻳﻌﻘﻮﺏ | yqwb | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Yagouba
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